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-2. (29 letters)Alter the structure or style of somethingAnimate existenceDeadly poisonFoot-operated leverPerson whose work exhibits exceptional skillPlace oneself in position for an artist Radioactive gasRender possibleSignify acceptanceSkilledStructure in which rock layers slope away in all directions from a central pointTop-up when empty

-3. (35 letters)Bake in a kilnBiting humourBranch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphologyCartoon matriarchConnected otherwise incompatible things togetherHunterPart of a many stringed instrumentsPrefix, multiplied by tenPulchritudinous meter-maidSleeping quartersTungsten Type-face extremityVolume per unit time